Hydrocarbon-gas machine



(N0 Model.)

E. ALLENDER.

HYDROGARBON GAS MACHINE.

Patented Mar. 24, .1885.

Engwa No@ Unirse STATES Barnum @erica HENRY ALLENDER, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

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SPECIFCATION forming part of Letters Patent No. S14-,412, dated .Marc-l1 2%, 1685. Appli: ation filed January 1U, 1834. (No model T0 all tlf/"2,0711, it may concer/t:

Be it known that I, HENRY ALLENDER., of

Detroit, in the county of Vayne and State of Michigan, have invented newa-nd useful Improvements in Hydrocarbon-Gas Machines and I hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, which forms a part of this specification.

This invention relates to certainnew and useful improvements in gas-machines of that class wherein the gas is produced by bringing gasoline and air into contact, so that the air becomes thoroughly carbureted and is converted into an illuminating-gas.

The invention consists in the peculiar construction of the parts, and in their various combinations and operation, as inore fully hereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawing, which forms a part of this specification, A represents an inclosingvessel of any suitable size, made, preferably,of galvanized iron. To the bottoni of this vessel, and within the saine, there is secured 'one or more cylinders, B, with open tops a. Loose] y sleeved upon these cylinders B are other cylinders, C, closed at the top b and open at the bottom.

Centrally secured within the cylinders B are guide-posts D, extending from the bottom of the chamber A to the top of such cylinders B. A tube, E, open at its lower end and closed at top, is centrally secured pendent from the top of the cylinder C, and when the latter is in place this tube is sleeved upon the guideposts D. At the bottom ends these tubes are provided with ilanges or tappets c, and similar flanges or tappets, d,are also secured to said tubes E near the top a ofthe cylinders B.

F is a pipe connected at e with a suitable air-pump. (Notshown.) The ends ofthis pipe F turn upward into the cylinders B through the bottom of the chamber A, and the Lipper ends of these pipes F terminate at the height of the top d ofthe cylinder B, where they are provided with the valves G.

II are airoutlet pipes connecting at their bottom ends below the bottom of the chamber A with the pipe I, which leads to asn1alldripchamber, J, whence another pipe, K, leads to connect with the coil of pipe L. This coil of pipe is made, preferably, in the form shown,

being nearly an elliptical spheroid, so that the spiral descent may be lessened as much as may the same.

M is a rigid arm attached to and projecting from the wall of the cylinder G, and from the outer ends of this arm a rod, N, extends downward, and its lower endis pivotally connected with a bucket, P.

Q, is a stop, the purposes of which will be hereinafter explained.

B is a flaring mouth entering the cylinder S, which surrounds the cylinder (l, and the top of this cylinder S is provided with an overflow upon a plane lower than the top t of the cylinder B.

The chamber A is filled with gasoline to the height of the dotted lines, as shown, and air being pumped into the pipe F escapes through the'valve G into the cylinders B and the cylinder C. Such pressure raises said cylinder C until the flange or tappet c at the lower end of the tube cornes in contact with the arm t' of the valve and closes it against the admission of more air, when the operation of the pump should cease. By means ot' the arm M` and rod N, as the cylinder C raises the bucket P, which up to this time has rested upon the botV tom of the chamber A, and immersed inthe be necessary to retard the flow ofliquid through u gasoline therein, is carried up with said cylinder until the lip /z 'engages with thestop Q, and such engagement tilts the bucket and discharges its contents into the mouth It, and thereby forms a seal like that of a gasometer, wherein water is used for a like purpose. A weight upon the top of the chambery() (after the pump has ceased its operations) gradually forces said cylinder downward, by means of which the air therein is forced out through the pipe II, and thence through the pipe I into the drip-chamber J. The gasoline carried up by the bucket P and discharged in-to the cylinder S will fill said cylinder, thereby not only forming the seal hereinbefore mentioned, but furnishing a sufficient amount of gasoline to pass out through the overflow k, the gasoline thus overflowing passing down the pipe T, which enters the gooseneck trap U of the coil L. Thus we have the gasoline descending slowly through said coil by gravity, and being brought into Contact with the air, which is being forced in the opposite direction to the ICO liovv of the gasoline by the pressure upon the 4 the cylinders B and C, the fiange or tappet d upon the tube E will strike the arm t' of the valve and open the same, so that the operation may be repeated under the action of the air-pump.

The coil L is an important factor in carburetors, as -by the peculiar construction ot' this coil more or less gasoline is allowed to Waste. In a vertical coil, where one coil lies upon the top of its fellow, the pitch of the descent is too great for ordinary purposes, giving too great a velocity to the descent of the gasoline and preventing its remaining a sufcient length of time in contact with the ascending air; hence the construction .of the coil shown and described herein, where the various convolutions of the coil are so arranged that one Will pass inside another, or nearly so,

so that the pitch of the descent to the coil may be made far less, and thereby render the ow of gasoline through the same comparatively sluggish, and keeping it longer in contact with the ascending air.

Another important feature in this invention is the arrangement by means of which only a small quantity of gasoline is mechanically and regularly supplied through the seal in such a manner that the seal is kept up and the overflow therefrom furnishes the gasoline for the carbureting purposes in such small quantities that it is all absorbed by the air with which it comes in contact, leaving little or none to pass into the drip.

What I claim as my invention isl. The combination, in a hydrocarbon-gas vmachine, of a hydrocarbon and air tank with a carbureting device, an annular seal-chamber, and means, substantially as described, for supplying oil to said seal-chamber,'the parts being arranged substantially as specied,where by the hydrocarbon for the carburetor is supplied from the seal-chamber, as set forth.

2. In a hydrocarbon-gas machine, a carbureting-coil made in the form of an ellipse,each convolution overlapping its fellow, instead of riding upon it, in combination with the trap U, depending from the apex of the coil, and connecting the same at one end with the gasoline-supply, and the air-supply pipe K, connected to the other end of the coil, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

3. 'Ihe air-cylinder B, provided with an annular seal-chamber, and the inverted cylinder C, in combination with a carbureting-coil, as I, and an overflow-pipe, as T, the latter constructed and arranged to convey the surplus hydrocarbon from the said seal-chamber to the earbureting-coil,substantially as specified.

4. In a hydrocarbon-gas machine, a telescoping gasometer air-tank made in two partsvith an annular seal-chamber betweenthem,in combination with an air-supply pipe regulated by the movement of one of the parts of the tank, means, substantially as described, for supplying oil to said seal-chamber during each traverse of said moving part, and a carburetor y supplied by the overflowing oil from the sealchamber, as and for the purposes set forth.

5. In a hydrocarbon-gas machine, the combination of a telescoping gasometer air-tank, as B S C, with an air-inlet, F, avalve, G, controlling said inlet, and tappets d c,attached to the moving cylinder, and constructed and arranged to contact with said valve G, and open andclose the air-inlet at each traverse of the moving cylinder, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

6. A hydrocarbon gas machine consisting ofthe tank A, the gasometer consisting of the cylinders B C S, air-inlet pipe F, valve G, flanges c d on the guide-tube D, overflow-pipe T, air-outlet pipe H I, arm M, rod N, bracket P, defiector Q, carbureting-coil L, and driptank J, the parts being constructed, combined, and operating substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

HENRY ALLENDER.

NVitnesses:

H. S. SPRAGUE, E. SOULLY. 

